Tenn. Senate Backs Anti-Abortion Step

[deadparrot]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The state Senate on Thursday passed a proposal to amend the Tennessee Constitution so that it doesn't guarantee a woman's right to an abortion.

The 24-9 vote was the first step of many toward officially amending the state constitution. The measure would go before voters if the General Assembly approves it twice over the next two years.

The state Supreme Court has ruled that the Tennessee Constitution grants women a greater right to abortion than the U.S. Constitution.

Abortion rights supporters are attacking the measure as a stepping stone to prohibiting all abortions in Tennessee if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark abortion decision in Roe v. Wade.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060309/ap_on_re_us/abortion_amendment

[Lars39]

1. ...

:mad: :puke: :argh: :grr: :nuke: :banghead:

[Elidor]

2. Oh, lovely

This is my home. I'm not surprised, but I'm fairly speechless nonetheless. Fundie fucks feeling empowered. Okay, this is going to get ugly a lot faster than I had anticipated.

[Shakespeare]

3. All in all, it's just a.....nother brick in the wall.

[kitkatrose]

4. GAH!!!!!!!!!!!

:grr:


:cry:

[4dsc]

5. they're coming out of the woodwork

Boy are these assholes coming out of the woodwork or what..

[Shakespeare]

6. Yup. And....

...I have a big, hearty "fuck you, stupid" for ALLLL of those who said "oh, they'll never do this...they'll never give up one of their wedge issues." The hell they won't.

[guruoo]

9. See the Dinos too....

DEMOCRATS VOTING YES

Charlotte Burks, Monterey

Jerry Cooper, Smartt

Douglas Henry, Nashville

Doug Jackson, Dickson

Tommy Kilby, Wartburg

Lt. Gov. John Wilder, Mason

http://www.wate.com/global/story.asp?s=4609574&ClientType=Printable

[Megahurtz]

7. Fundamentalist Freaks Rearing Their Ugly Heads!

:freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak:

just wait until THEY experience the backlash!!!

They can try eliminating abortion, but they won't succeed!

[Lars39]

8. More people need to see this!

:mad: :kick:

[JerseygirlCT]

10. How many more?

And how long before all the people saying Alito's nomination wouldn't affect reproductive rights realizes how terribly wrong they were?

[tnlefty]

11. May I be the first to say - FUCK you David Fowler!!!

They don't come much fowler and nuttier than you. You freakin' nut, you didn't want to allow the TN Constitution to be altered to allow a lottery, and then you fought tooth and nail to keep the people of this state from voting on it, but you just loooove this gem don't ya?!!

I'll stop now before I get myself in trouble.

[cynatnite]

12. In other news...less Tenncare patients...more uninsured...

Blount Memorial's numbers mirror many across East Tennessee. Most hospitals are seeing fewer Tenncare patients, but more indigent cases involving people in need. That, in turn, has meant far more demand for urgent care and good Samaritan clinics which are geared toward those with minimal or no insurance.

While the above consequences were expected, other factors have not come into play as much as first thought. Dawson said Blount Memorial was expected to lose $1.5 million in revenue once Tenncare cuts took place. So far, they have only lost $1 million in revenue, a difference Dawson attributes to gradual cuts compared to the initial slice they were expecting.

"Gradual is good," He said. "It give us an opportunity to accommodate the increased capacity that's coming on gradually."

Tony Spazia of Covenant Health says the other Tenncare shoe has not dropped yet. New and more rigid caps and limits on current Tenncare recipients are set to start later in
2006.

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=32372&provider=rss

Yeah, let's cut more people from Tenncare and food stamps. Those babies they're saving don't need no stinkin' health care. :sarcasm:

[NightOwwl]

13. I don't know if I can take much more of this.

My country is being taken over by people who would feel right at home at the Salem witch trials.

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. Gotta see the uglies before people unify against them forever.

It sucks, but it's the motivation that's required to form an even better society.

[reprobate]

15. Does anyone remember this nation before Roe v Wade?

Few of us alive then don't remember some poor girl who 'got in trouble' and then lost her life to some back alley coat hanger abortionist. These whackoes will end up not stopping abortion, but killing those women who don't have the cash to travel to places that have safe medical abortion available.
These people could care less about abortion. They truly believe that women are the cause of all evil in the world. The temptation they parade before men causes those poor men to be corrupted and do evil things they would not otherwise have done.

In that way there is little difference between our own homegrown fundies and the Islamist fundies that we Americans have so feared these last four years. Idiots are dangerous no matter what theirr religious cover.